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Show OFFICIAL ROW IX I'TAQ. The federal officials of Utah are making a bitter war on the new United States district attorney, U corse C-Bates, C-Bates, who is dow in U'ashinion on huiness conoectcd with liis office. Bates is accused of too much offi'iation with the Mormons or io other words of possessing a little common sense arid honesty. As he was not in the Territory much over a month, coming an entire stranger, the charge against hira is silly. We had some acquaintance with Mr. Bates some years a.co, and when his appointment to a position was telegraphed, tele-graphed, we predicted n rough time for him in Utah. IIn is a gentleman of too much ability and experience to long entertain a lively respect for the small politicians who are pulling each other's hair in that Territory. They fear his influence, are jealous of him. As a Republican, he is older old-er than any of them. His long experience as an U. S. prosecuting prose-cuting officer in he Territory of Michigan, and subsequently in some of the Territories still further westward, has taught him what is due from courts as well as people; and no lawyer can entertain much respect lor the lawless law-less decisions for which Judirc McKean is famous. The Federal olliciais have discovered that they cannot use him to carry out their revolutionary programme, pro-gramme, after the carpet-bag stylo of the Southern States. Rates evidently understands the situation, and is disposed dis-posed to execute his office with firmness, firm-ness, but with moderation, in accordance accord-ance with law, and not over it. It is not surprising therefore that the Radical Radi-cal junto at Salt Lake have opened a war upon him, and requested bis removal re-moval from office. This is the treatment treat-ment which most men in political life in these days receive, who possess any independence of characfer, and the requisite re-quisite integrity and intellect to properly pro-perly and efficiently perform their duties. Judge McKc.in is a m m of ability and force of character, hut better adapted by natural trims to rule despotically des-potically over some Tartar tribe, than to sit upon the bench where coldblooded cold-blooded law is to bo expounded. He has imbibed tho too prevalent idea that courts arc above all responsibility; that whatever proposition a judicial officer chooses to assert shall be the rule of the caso without reference to law or equity. Judge McKean will do well to cemcmber that courts are instituted insti-tuted to administer law, and not to malec it; that under our system judges are as amenable l'or their acts while on tho bench as any other officer. The persecution of Mr. Bates may succeed, but at the most it will be only a temporary success. If the President were as well posted on the character of his appointees in Utah, and the real condiiion of the Territory, as some who have frequently visited it from year to year, who have no personal interest in the matter, the change he would make, if any, would not be ihe office of district dis-trict attorney, but of those bo are bawling for his removal. Meantime Bates in Utah reminds m of th-tt illustrative illus-trative quadruped in a wan n Inliludc without claws. Possibly lie m iy rind them in Washington. Carson Rtfjis tcr. |